how to protect wp site from attacks

  • Hi all, I installed in one of our websites a forum and a blog (bbpress plugins, forum, bbp profile information, bbp online status, and bbp login register). The website is constantly under attack: even if I installed a strong reCAPTCHA, I have to manually delete hundreds of fake users registrations. 746 in last two months.

    Please don’t consider this as a normal case: the fact is that the site owner has a serious problem: she is attacked by a stalker in real life, and I have evidences (also checking the IP addresses and some other info) that the major part of her site attacks come from this stalker (he asked help to some hackers). Tried also with Police, but … wasting of time (!).

    Tried also with banhammer, but useless: only time spent to ban, delete, ban … any suggestion on how to solve? Thank you very much. Any help is appreciated.

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  • Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    Hi @mrosfy – this forum is for questions related to the Twenty Seventeen. Since your issue is not theme-related, I’d suggest you ask for help in the main troubleshooting forum.

    Thread Starter Mauro Vicariotto

    (@mrosfy)

    Hi Kathryn, thank you and happy Easter (on delay). (FYI, continuing from our previous thread, I’m creating a great child theme). Ciao

    Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    Glad to hear your child theme is coming along well and Happy Easter to you as well. ??

    Thread Starter Mauro Vicariotto

    (@mrosfy)

    sorry Kathryn if I take advantage of your answer for a short question about the child theme: to override a js file of the parent theme it is sufficient to create a folder structure with parallel path and script name (therefore it is automatically overridden, same as per templates), or it is necessary a function in php (dequeue old / enqueue new)? thank you very much. Mauro

    Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    Hi @mrosfy – JavaScript files in a child theme have are not overridden the same simple way PHP theme files are, so you do need to enqueue your child theme’s JS files in order to override them. There’s a StackOverflow response here that shows one way to do it without needing to dequeue the original.

    More about child theme development.

    Thread Starter Mauro Vicariotto

    (@mrosfy)

    Hi Kathryn, thank you, note that I tested and it works also adding the same folder path and the amended piece of code, of course same script name and same function name. Howver, I will follow your suggestion for more safety, I also read some notes in StackOverflow, there are several ways.

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